Affiliated FM Insurance v. LTK Consulting Services, Inc.

¶1 A fire ignited on the Seattle Monorail System’s (Seattle Monorail) blue train in 2004. The monorail’s private operating company, Seattle Monorail Services *444(SMS), suffered millions of dollars in losses. The question presented is whether SMS, which does not own the Seattle Monorail, can bring a tort action against LTK Consulting Services, Inc., an engineering firm that worked on monorail maintenance before the fire, for negligently causing the fire. LTK assumes, for the sake of argument in its motion for summary judgment, that the cause of the fire was the train’s faulty grounding system,…